twelve-tone system

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Noun twelve-tone system has 1 sense

twelve-tone music, 12-tone music, twelve-tone system, 12-tone system - a type of serial music introduced by Arnold Schoenberg; uses a tone row formed by the twelve semitones of the chromatic scale (and inverted or backward versions of the row)
--₁ is a kind of serialism, serial music

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